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Sweden: Iraqi man fills Qur’an with bacon, tears it up, burns it

outside mosque on Eid

JUN 29, 2023 11:00 AM 

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

Jihad Watch

According to Euro News, the Iraqi refugee “tore, burned and kicked” the Qur’an “at a protest initially allowed by the authorities.” Why would this Iraqi refugee, Salwan Momika, display such disdain for the Qur’an? It suggests that this refugee (along with so many others) has suffered as a result of Qur’anic doctrines which call for the harm of and murder of those who are considered  heretics, apostates, and above all, infidels.

Turkey continues to resist Sweden’s bid to join NATO over two sticking points: Qur’an burnings and Sweden’s allowing Kurdish protests. As a result of the latter, Turkey deems Sweden to be harboring “terrorists,” which is nonsense. This incident has further enraged Turkey, and the country is joined by “several Middle Eastern countries, including Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran,” which “have condemned a ‘provocative’ incident.”

Turkey which has been virtually holding Sweden hostage over its principle of freedom of expression, which does not recognize “hurt feelings” as an excuse to violate its constitution. Sweden expectedly criticized the “Islamophobic” act, as well as ongoing Kurdish protests.

Even worse was the comment from the deputy spokesman for the US State Department, Vedant Patel. He stated that the “burning of religious texts is “disrespectful and hurtful.” Despite his view, Patel still encouraged Turkey to accept Sweden into NATO, which is now further hardened against Sweden after yet another Qur’an burning.

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Iraqi man fills a Koran with bacon and burns it outside a Stockholm mosque after police allowed protest, enraging Turkey which holds sway over Sweden’s bid to join NATO

Chris Jewers, Daily Mail, June 28, 2023:

An Iraqi man filled a Koran with bacon and burned it in Stockholm on Wednesday, an event that has angered Turkey as Sweden bids to join NATO.

The inflammatory stunt was carried out by two men outside the city’s main mosque on the first day of the Muslim three-day Eid al-Adha holiday.

Some 200 onlookers witnessed one of the two organisers – Salwan Momika – tearing up pages of a copy of the Koran and wiping his shoes with it before putting bacon in it and setting the book on fire, whilst the other protester spoke into a megaphone.

Some of those present shouted ‘God is great’ in Arabic to protest against the burning, and one man was detained by police after he attempted to throw a rock. A supporter of the demonstration shouted ‘let it burn’ as the holy book caught on fire….

Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan condemned the act in a tweet on Wednesday, writing: ‘I condemn the vile protest against our holy book in Sweden.’…

Approximately 63.5% of the population of Malaysia practice Islam, 18.7% practice Buddhism, 9.1% Christianity, 6.1% Hinduism and 1.3% practice Confucianism, Taoism and other traditional Chinese religions - Wikipedia

Eastern Malaysia opposes Islamic expansionism and

'dangerous slide toward religious extremism'

JUN 29, 2023 12:00 PM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

Last November, Malaysia’s fifteenth general election was described as “arguably the most historic in the country’s history. For the first time, no coalition managed to secure a parliamentary majority, resulting in a hung federal parliament.” But most significant was that the Malaysian Islamic Party (the Parti Islam Se-Malaysia – PAS) enjoyed a sweeping win. The win reflected the growth of influence of the ulema in that country, which was on a path to secularism starting in the 1950’s.

Ulema - a body of Muslim scholars recognized as having specialist knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology.

While most Westerners are asleep on the issue of historic and present Islamic expansionism, it is alive and well in many countries. In Malaysia, the Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) was also founded in the Fifties, and never lost sight of its goal to Islamize Malaysia. According to the publication European Eye on Radicalization:

the ulema had a long-term view of building upon the extensive network of traditional pondoks (religious schools), and madrasas (Quranic schools) across the region. These pondoks and madrasas had been owned and operated by families who were uztaz and uztazas (male and female Islamic teachers) going back for generations.

By 2017, Malaysia’s population was shifting to side with the ulema. Reuters reported that tens of thousands of Malaysians rallied in the capital of Kuala Lumpur “to support the adoption of a strict Islamic penal code, a proposal religious minorities fear could infringe their rights.”

With the rise of Islamization comes persecution of minorities, an inevitable result of Islamic supremacism. Then-Prime Minister Najib Razak threw his weight behind the bill, even as critics warned “that it could pave the way for full implementation of hudud, which prescribes punishments such as amputations and stoning, and disrupt the fabric of Malaysia’s multi-cultural and multi-religious society.”

Fast forward to elections in November 2022: the new Malaysian prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, was seen as a hope, and reported by the Conversation to be considered by many “to be one of the only real Muslim democrats fighting to keep Malaysia multiracial and multicultural,” and that “many Western governments breathed a sigh of relief on seeing Anwar triumph.” But the accolades were premature. Ibrahim stated only months ago that secularism will never be recognized in his country. He included secularism as an ill, along with communism:

Sometimes these politicians will say that if Anwar becomes prime minister then Islam will be ruined, secularism and communism will gain a foothold, and LGBT will be recognised….This is a delusion. Of course, it will never happen under my administration.

In Malaysia today, “Islam has been taught as a religion of exclusion to the point where those who don’t share the same beliefs are labeled as infidels,” but the Eastern Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak are “uneasy” to the point of readiness to oppose Malaysia’s Islamization:

Sabah and Sarawak are looking on in growing concern, raising questions if they can serve as a restraint to move the country away from its dangerous slide toward religious extremism, or if they might drift toward a de facto independence

Sabah and Sarawak are the largest states in Malaysia. In 2020, Sabah had a population of 3.4 million; Sarawak’s population was 2.56 million. The fight for secularism in these significant states has been years in the making, see HERE and HERE. Given that Malaysia has a population of 33.6 million, and the determination of the ulema, it increasingly looks like historic Islamic expansionism will win another territory, yet again. In the meantime, Westerners remain willfully blind.